Subramanium Vennila, Giridharan Bupesh, Devaraj Dhanakaran, Sachidanandam magesh, Vijayan Senthilkumar, Ramalingam Senthilraja, Krishnan Saravanamurali and Natarajan Saran
Background: Diabetes mellitus patients thrive very hard to reduce their glucose levels by using various hypoglycemic agents. Many hypoglycemic agents cause side effects and fail to reduce glucose level, when they use for a long time. Folklore natural medicines will successfully act on many diseases without causing any side effects when it was consumes prolonged. Patients practicing yoga and exercise with the traditional medicines contribute a significant efficacy in management of diabetes in very short period.
Main Observations: We report the cases of 40 to 60 year old type-2 diabetic patients were evaluated for the efficacy of Helicteres isora concoction 5 mg/5 ml concentration with practicing yoga and exercise. The patients were observed for the glucose levels and body weight before evaluating with cohort study. The results from the cohort study showed that the group 1M and 1O had significant reduction in glucose levels when compared to control groups treated for four weeks.
Conclusions: Type-2 Diabetic Patients administered orally with H.isora concoction in practicing yoga reveals that they were significantly reduced in blood glucose levels and body weight. Thus the study provides a novel hypoglycemic agent which is very cheaper that ails to the management of diabetes mellitus.
